Best chilean movies according to experts
by davisoon | created - 10 May 2019 | updated - 1 week ago | PublicLas mejores películas chilenas de la historia, según encuesta a directores chilenos, realizada por cinechile.cl. La lista está en el orden de la encuesta hasta el puesto 34 (To kill a man), luego fueron añadidas otras películas como "A fantastic woman", que no se había estrenado en el momento de la encuesta.
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1. Jackal of Nahueltoro (1969)
95 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The real story about an illiterate murderer, educated in prison, where he reflects on his actions days before he died.
Director: Miguel Littin | Stars: Nelson Villagra, Shenda Román, Marcelo Romo, Héctor Noguera
Votes: 1,151
2. Three Sad Tigers (1968)
100 min | Drama
The drunken nights of several listless chancers in Chile's capital city build inexorably to violence.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Shenda Román, Nelson Villagra, Luis Alarcón, Jaime Vadell
Votes: 385
3. Valparaíso, mi amor (1969)
90 min | Drama
A poor Valparaiso family faces a tough life after the father is sent to prison.
Director: Aldo Francia | Stars: Hugo Cárcamo, Sara Astica, Rigoberto Rojo, Liliana Cabrera
Votes: 192
4. The Battle of Chile: Part I (1975)
Not Rated | 97 min | Documentary, History
The chronicle of the political tension in Chile in 1973 and of the violent counter revolution against the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende.
Director: Patricio Guzmán | Stars: Abilio Fernández, Salvador Allende
Votes: 1,613
5. The Battle of Chile: Part II (1976)
Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary, History
Filmmaker Patricio Guzmán tracks the deterioration of Salvador Allende's position following the attempted coup d'état of 29 June 1973, and analyzes the 10 weeks before Augusto Pinochet's CIA-backed seizure of power.
Director: Patricio Guzmán | Stars: Salvador Allende, Carlos Altamirano, Fernando Castillo, Luis Corvalán
Votes: 1,282
6. The Battle of Chile: Part III (1979)
80 min | Documentary, History
This film investigates the factory worker's response to the insurrection, as well as Chile's socialist aspirations for the future. The camera captures the optimism in the industrial working class before Pinochet's US-backed coup d'état.
Director: Patricio Guzmán | Stars: Salvador Allende, Abilio Fernández, Ernesto Malbran
Votes: 1,040
7. Largo viaje (1967)
83 min | Drama
A young boy, lost in the big city, tries to find his way home. Along the way, he encounters a cross-section of society that he has never known.
Director: Patricio Kaulen | Stars: Enrique Kaulen, Eliana Vidal, Fabio Zerpa, Rubén Ubeira
Votes: 252
8. Machuca (2004)
Not Rated | 121 min | Biography, Drama, History
Two 12-year-old Chilean children from different social classes become friends in 1973. They both discover each other's world as political tensions in their country increase.
Director: Andrés Wood | Stars: Matías Quer, Ariel Mateluna, Manuela Martelli, Aline Küppenheim
Votes: 12,657
9. La Frontera (1991)
120 min | Drama
A high school teacher runs afoul of the government and is sentenced to internal exile.
Director: Ricardo Larraín | Stars: Patricio Contreras, Gloria Laso, Alonso Venegas, Sergio Schmied
Votes: 509
10. The Club (2015)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A crisis counselor is sent by the Catholic Church to a small Chilean beach town where disgraced priests and nuns, suspected of crimes ranging from child abuse to baby-snatching from unwed mothers, live secluded, after an incident occurs.
Director: Pablo Larraín | Stars: Alfredo Castro, Roberto Farías, Antonia Zegers, Marcelo Alonso
Votes: 11,986 | Gross: $0.03M
11. Caliche Sangriento (1969)
128 min | Drama, History, War
The plot takes place in 1879 through 1880 during the War of the Pacific. The film decries the cruelty and absurdity of war and the disunity among the peoples of Latin America.
Director: Helvio Soto | Stars: Hector Duvauchelle, Patricia Guzmán, Jorge Guerra, Jaime Vadell
Votes: 108
12. El zapato chino (1979)
72 min | Drama, Romance
A taxi driver finds Marlene, a provincial girl, lost in a brothel. He immediately decides to protect her in his home. Little by little, his paternal affection transforms into a strange ... See full summary »
Director: Cristián Sánchez | Stars: Felisa González, Andrés Quintana, Fernando Andía, Luis Alarcón
Votes: 69
13. Julio comienza en julio (1979)
120 min | Drama
This is the story of a teenager at the turn of the century in the conservative higher classes of Chile and the initiation rites in his society.
Director: Silvio Caiozzi | Stars: Elsa Alarcón, Jorge Álvarez, Luis Alarcón, Magdalena Aguirre
Votes: 286
14. One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train (1988)
55 min | Documentary
"Tells the story of a group of Chilean children who discover a larger reality and a different world through the cinema. Each Saturday, Alicia Vega transforms the chapel of Lo Hermida into a... See full summary »
Director: Ignacio Agüero | Star: Alicia Vega
Votes: 298
15. Little White Dove (1992)
125 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A poor schoolgirl and a young man from a wealthy family have an affair.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Beatriz Lapido, Rodrigo Ureta, Mónica Díaz, Manuel Aranguiz
Votes: 240
16. Gloria (II) (2013)
R | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A story set in Santiago and centered on Gloria, a free-spirited older woman, and the realities of her whirlwind relationship with a former naval officer whom she meets out in the clubs.
Director: Sebastián Lelio | Stars: Paulina García, Sergio Hernández, Diego Fontecilla, Fabiola Zamora
Votes: 9,368 | Gross: $2.11M
17. Aquí se construye (o Ya no existe el lugar donde nací) (2000)
77 min | Documentary
Ignacio Agüero follows the demolition and development in a neighborhood in the Chilean capital Santiago. Agüero contrasts the destruction and the tearing down of walls by monstrous grabs with a calm camera that glides along the houses.
Director: Ignacio Agüero
Votes: 63
18. El pejesapo (2007)
90 min | Drama
Daniel is a maladjusted man, who after a failed suicide attempt, returns to restart his life from the poor periphery of Santiago, to downtown. In this journey he does not discover any ... See full summary »
Director: José Luis Sepúlveda | Stars: Héctor Silva, Jessica Calderón, Yani Escobar, José Melo
Votes: 100
19. Tony Manero (2008)
TV-MA | 97 min | Drama, Music
A man is obsessed with John Travolta's disco dancing character from Saturday Night Fever (1977).
Director: Pablo Larraín | Stars: Alfredo Castro, Amparo Noguera, Héctor Morales, Paola Lattus
Votes: 4,558
20. The Maid (2009)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Drama
A drama centered on a maid trying to hold on to her position after having served a family for 23 years.
Director: Sebastián Silva | Stars: Catalina Saavedra, Claudia Celedón, Mariana Loyola, Andrea García-Huidobro
Votes: 6,460 | Gross: $0.55M
21. A Cab for Three (2001)
Unrated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A taxi driver is given a difficult choice from 2 small time crooks: drive them around while they rob, or get locked up in the trunk.
Director: Orlando Lübbert | Stars: Alejandro Trejo, Fernando Gómez Rovira, Daniel Muñoz, Elena Milea
Votes: 1,128
22. Nostalgia for the Light (2010)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary
A documentary about two different searches conducted in the Chilean Atacama Desert: one by astronomers looking for answers about the history of the cosmos, and one by women looking for the remains of loved ones killed by Pinochet's regime.
Director: Patricio Guzmán | Stars: Gaspar Galaz, Lautaro Núñez, Luís Henríquez, Miguel Lawner
Votes: 6,110
23. La Luna en el Espejo (1990)
75 min | Drama
A sailor prostrate in his bed maintains control of his home and his son through mirrors hung around him.
Director: Silvio Caiozzi | Stars: Gloria Münchmeyer, Rafael Benavente, Ernesto Beadle, Mónica Echeverría
Votes: 190
24. No (I) (2012)
R | 118 min | Drama, History
An advertising executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum.
Director: Pablo Larraín | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers, Luis Gnecco
Votes: 26,216 | Gross: $2.34M
25. Johnny One Hundred Pesos (1993)
90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A young low-class student gets involved with the wrong people and takes part in a non successful video rental robbery.
Director: Gustavo Graef Marino | Stars: Armando Araiza, Patricia Rivera, Willy Semler, Aldo Parodi
Votes: 658
26. Diálogos de exiliados (1975)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
Chilean exiles in Paris discuss the problems facing them in the early years of the Pinochet regime. They kidnap and attempt to reeducate a touring singer from their homeland.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Daniel Gélin, Françoise Arnoul, Huguette Faget, Sergio Hernández
Votes: 177
27. Violeta Went to Heaven (2011)
Not Rated | 110 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A portrait of famed Chilean singer and folklorist Violeta Parra, filled with her musical work, her memories, her loves, and her hopes.
Director: Andrés Wood | Stars: Francisco Acuña, Juan Alfaro, Orlando Alfaro, Almendra Andrade
Votes: 2,412 | Gross: $0.02M
28. El húsar de la muerte (1925)
65 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of Manuel Rodriguez
Director: Pedro Sienna | Stars: Pedro Sienna, Clara Werther, Piet Van Ravenstein, Guillermo Barrientos
Votes: 162
29. Los deseos concebidos (1982)
128 min
Erre, a teenager who lives with his uncles and an almost absent sister, is removed from the high school payroll. From then on it glides like an automaton, through places where strangeness ... See full summary »
Director: Cristián Sánchez | Stars: Andrés Aliaga, Juan S. Cuevas, Heidi Dettwiler, Tennyson Ferrada
Votes: 38
30. Days in the Country (2004)
89 min | Drama
In a bar in Santiago, two old men talk over their past. This is a strange discussion. In fact, they talk of themselves as if they were dead. We don't know what is true or false, what is dream or reality.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Marcial Edwards, Mario Montilles, Bélgica Castro, Ignacio Agüero
Votes: 155
31. Nobody Said Anything (1971)
135 min | Comedy
Surrealism "a la chilena" sees four drunken, literary bohemians write a short story about a pact with the Devil just as that very story is happening to them.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Carlos Solanos, Jaime Vadell, Luis Vilches, Luis Alarcón
Votes: 65
32. La Once (2014)
80 min | Documentary
It's a documentary about a group of old ladies that have been friends since high school and they decided to see each other every month. The film documents their interactions and conversations.
Director: Maite Alberdi | Stars: María Teresa Muñoz, Alicia Pérez, Angélica Charpentier, Ximena Calderón
Votes: 574
33. The Life of Fish (2010)
84 min | Drama, Romance
Andrés returns to Santiago after several years to face a tragic event.
Director: Matías Bize | Stars: Santiago Cabrera, Blanca Lewin, Víctor Montero, Sebastián Layseca
Votes: 1,665
34. To Kill a Man (2014)
TV-14 | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A working class man who, tired of being the victim of criminals, decides to take justice in his own hands.
Director: Alejandro Fernández Almendras | Stars: Daniel Candia, Alejandra Yañez, Daniel Antivilo, Ariel Mateluna
Votes: 1,645
35. The Good Life (2008)
108 min | Drama
Four people intertwine their lives in a city and pursue their own dreams.
Director: Andrés Wood | Stars: Aline Küppenheim, Roberto Farías, Eduardo Paxeco, Paula Sotelo
Votes: 592
36. A Fantastic Woman (2017)
R | 104 min | Drama
Marina, a transgender woman who works as a waitress and moonlights as a nightclub singer, is bowled over by the death of her older boyfriend.
Director: Sebastián Lelio | Stars: Daniela Vega, Francisco Reyes, Luis Gnecco, Aline Küppenheim
Votes: 27,273 | Gross: $2.02M
37. Neruda (2016)
R | 107 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
An inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party.
Director: Pablo Larraín | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Luis Gnecco, Mercedes Morán, Emilio Gutiérrez Caba
Votes: 11,048 | Gross: $0.94M
38. The Pearl Button (2015)
Not Rated | 82 min | Documentary
Delving into the nearly-religious significance of water, this profound rumination on memory and loss bridges the gap between its mystical origins, Pinochet's coup d'état, and the secret of a mother-of-pearl button at the bottom of the sea.
Director: Patricio Guzmán | Stars: Martín Calderón, Cristina, Patricio Guzmán, Ema Malig
Votes: 2,898
39. The Dance of Reality (2013)
Unrated | 133 min | Biography, Drama, Fantasy
In a little Chilean town, the son of an uprooted couple formed by a rigorous communist father and a loving but weak mother tries to pave his own path in a society that does not understand their Jewish-Ukrainian origins.
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky | Stars: Brontis Jodorowsky, Pamela Flores, Jeremias Herskovits, Alejandro Jodorowsky
Votes: 9,522 | Gross: $0.19M
40. Te creís la más linda (2009)
82 min | Comedy
A man with a complicated sexual problem falls in love with a girl in the park.
Director: Che Sandoval | Stars: Martín Castillo, Camila Le-Bert, Francisco Braithwaite, Andrea Riquelme
Votes: 249
41. Ilusiones Ópticas (2009)
105 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Cristián Jiménez | Stars: Ivan Alvarez de Araya, Gregory Cohen, Eduardo Paxeco, Paola Lattus
Votes: 282
42. La Once (2014)
80 min | Documentary
It's a documentary about a group of old ladies that have been friends since high school and they decided to see each other every month. The film documents their interactions and conversations.
Director: Maite Alberdi | Stars: María Teresa Muñoz, Alicia Pérez, Angélica Charpentier, Ximena Calderón
Votes: 574
43. Ema (2019)
R | 107 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A couple deals with the aftermath of an adoption that goes awry as their household falls apart.
Director: Pablo Larraín | Stars: Mariana Di Girólamo, Gael García Bernal, Santiago Cabrera, Paola Giannini
Votes: 9,258
44. Caluga o menta (1990)
100 min | Crime, Drama
A penetrating look at Santiago, Chile, its sectors and multiple social differences experienced in three friends.
Director: Gonzalo Justiniano | Stars: Hector Vega Mauricio, Patricia Rivadeneira, Aldo Parodi, Myriam Palacios
Votes: 187
45. Malta con Huevo (2007)
Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi
A delirious black comedy that tells the story of Vladimir and Jorge, two best friends who move in together. Vladimir lives a supernatural life of time travel while Jorge follows a twisted ... See full summary »
Director: Cristobal Valderrama | Stars: Diego Muñoz, Nicolás Saavedra, Javiera Díaz de Valdés, Manuela Martelli
Votes: 419
46. The Settlers (2023)
Not Rated | 97 min | Crime, Drama, History
In Chile in 1901, three horseman are paid to protect a vast estate. Accompanying a British soldier and an American mercenary is a mixed-race sniper, who realizes that his true mission is to kill the indigenous population.
Director: Felipe Gálvez Haberle | Stars: Sam Spruell, Mark Stanley, Alfredo Castro, Benjamin Westfall
Votes: 2,889
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